Grateful Dead Live at Strand Lyceum on 1972-05-25
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- Publication date
- 1972-05-25 ( check for other copies)
- Topics
- Soundboard, Charlie Miller, Rob Eaton
- Collection
- GratefulDead
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- Grateful Dead
- Resource
- DeadLists Project
This show has been commercially released as " Europe '72: The Complete Recordings - All The Music Edition"
The Promised Land
Brown Eyed Women
Big Boss Man
Black Throated Wind
Tennessee Jed
Mr. Charlie
Jack Straw
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider
Me And Bobby McGee
Good Lovin'
Playing In The Band
Brokedown Palace
Casey Jones
Set 2
Me And My Uncle
Big Railroad Blues
Chinatown Shuffle
Ramble On Rose
Uncle John's Band ->
Jam ->
Wharf Rat ->
Dark Star ->
Sugar Magnolia
Comes A Time
El Paso
Sittin' On Top Of The World
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
One More Saturday Night
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Song Title | Versions | Compilations | Covers |
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The Promised Land | |||
Brown Eyed Women | |||
Big Boss Man | |||
Black Throated Wind | |||
Tennessee Jed | |||
Mr. Charlie | |||
Jack Straw | |||
China Cat Sunflower -> | |||
I Know You Rider | |||
Me And Bobby McGee | |||
Good Lovin' | |||
Playing In The Band | |||
Brokedown Palace | |||
Casey Jones | |||
Tuning | |||
Me And My Uncle | |||
Big Railroad Blues | |||
Chinatown Shuffle | |||
Ramble On Rose | |||
Uncle John's Band -> | |||
Wharf Rat -> | |||
Dark Star -> | |||
Sugar Magnolia |
Notes
Notes:
-- All disc changes are seamless
-- First few seconds of Tennessee Jed missing
-- Playing In The Band cuts at end of song
-- Sugar Magnolia cuts at end of song
-- Missing Comes A Time through One More Saturday Night
-- Thanks to Rob Eaton for letting me transfer his Dats
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- 2008-05-08 00:15:20
- Identifier
- gd1972-05-25.sbd.miller.87682.sbeok.flac16
- Lineage
- Dat/0 (Sony 500) -> Samplitude Professional 9.11 -> FLAC
- Location
- London, England
- Post_text
- This show has been commercially released as " Europe '72: The Complete Recordings - All The Music Edition"
- Run time
- 189
- Source
- SBD -> Master Reel 10 inch reels recorded at 7.5 ips (1/2 track) -> Apogee AD500 D-> Dat/0 (48k) D
- Transferred by
- Charlie Miller
- Type
- sound
- Venue
- Strand Lyceum
- Year
- 1972
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Reviews
Subject: Piggy feelin’ good
Subject: All good here, in fact Grate
Subject: many worlds I've come since i first left home,,
but not all shows can be comprehended
"RED means run son
numbers add up to nothing"
Subject: Emotionally Fatigued ?
Subject: For completists probably
If you're going through the tour you'll listen regardless, and though it probably ranks at the bottom on the tour (just below Newcastle and maybe Rotterdam), it's E72 so it's still an average GOGD show. But if you are looking for London '72 shows go with 4/7 & 4/8 first followed by 5/23 & 5/24. (It's just called Lyceum Theater, not Strand Lyceum).
First Set. Bobby loses his place for Promised Land and Jer's not warmed yet. The set is average '72 until a focused Jack Straw. If not as astounding as some on E72, China Cat>Rider is solid. Good Lovin' starts two jam songs in a row. They're not the most inspired of the tour but Playin' does keep the Donnaskreech™ to a minimum. Casey Jones is flat.
Second Set. Pigpen is the glue and the best sequence of the show is Chinatown through Wharf. Uncle John's has a great solo and jam (but it's also flubby). Dark Star has long stretches of not much, with the verse coming in @16:50, though there IS a long Feelin' Groovy. Sugar Mag is sans Donna. Comes a Time is creaky but the end jam is fine. Sittin' on Top of the World is the last ever, and best of the three E72s. Goin' Down the Road & One More Saturday are solid enough to leave 'em happy.
1st Set: C
2nd Set: C
Overall = 2½ stars
Highlights:
China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider - solid
Sittin' on Top of the World - last one and best of three
Subject: thanks for the music
Subject: Pinnacle of Europe 72?
BEW is short and sweet.
Big Boss Man is nice and funky
BTW is a great one, no overzealous singing, and good teamwork all around.
TN Jed is great, nice and twangy with the team’s cohesive playing culminating in a great jam session before the outro verse.
Mr. Charlie
Jack Straw, another great team effort here.
China>Rider, short and sweet segue here in the days prior to the extendo jam in the middle.
Me & Bobby
Good Lovin’, not a song I am generally fond of in the Pigpen era because they often tend to be a lot of boring backing to some rap which may be slightly entertaining. However, this one includes an awesome, psychedelic jam! The jam does slow down and meander for a while after the 7 minute mark before speeding back up at 11 minutes and then going into the outro verse.
PITB the jam is driven up till somewhere in the 8th minute where things slow down. These London shows mark the point where they’d started to explore the PITB territory a bit more, and are important for this reason. Great version.
Brokedown
Casey Jones
MAMU is a good way to open the set.
Big RR, Keith is clearly excited dropping double trills at the intro. Great energy in another rocking Big RR.
Chinatown Shuffle
Ramble on has a great feel to it.
UJB>Jam>Wharf Rat>Dark Star>UJB Jam>Tiger>Sugar Magnolia
UJB has a great vibe, pushing nice energy out, and then after the jam breaks down into a nice little jam that can’t decide if it wants to be Wharf Rat or Dark Star until Bob finally strums Wharf Rat chords deciding the issue. This is a great, powerful rendition, check out what Bobby does as Jerry starts into the “Get up and fly away” verse. Jer is in especially fine voice for this one, which he then diverts into his playing for the outro that blends perfectly into Dark Star’s opening notes. 6 minutes into DS we have a really nice jam, which by 8 minutes in has left the theme but remained with a decent amount of energy pushing through the boundaries of space, which gives up the energy around 11 minutes to go deep space exploring. HAL500 opens the pod bay door at around 14 minutes, and we’re in a dark place, Phil pushing it darker, with Bob and Jerry working between feedback and notes respectively (or is that Phil on the feedback?), until we return directly to theme just after 15 minutes in for the verse. After the verse Phil does a little jazz jam, backed by Keith and Billy. Guitars join in after a bit, slowly. We then get what would later be the Feeling Good Jam in the middle of China Rider, which seems to be based also on an UJB type idea. Prototype stuff here! Nice. It then heads back into a UJB jam basically. Around 25 minutes we head into a themeless, groovy jam, which then goes into a spacier place by 28 minutes… in this recess of space, starting just before the 30th minute, we are in the Jungle. The Tiger lives in the Jungle, this is a dark place. The Tiger goes strike immediately, but lurks in the bushes, you hear them rattling as it passes closer and closer. By 33 minutes X factor is achieved. While this Tiger never quite rips your face off, holy crap is it awesome. Bob can’t take it anymore and after the meltdown starts hinting at Sugar Magnolia to brighten things back up. Crikey! What a meat sequence! A+!
Comes a Time is a good call, I don’t know if I could handle any more intensity after what just happened. Bring me back to earth please. A fine rendition of one of my favorite ballads, Jerry taking control.
El Paso, another great rendition.
Sittin’ On Top of the World, the last rendition of this GD Surf Rock classic. Pig is in fine organ form for it. Fun song, primitive sure… love it! Jerry tears up some solo action. A+.
GDTRFB>OMSN
GDTRFB is so rockin’ Donna loses herself to the moment and screams! Seriously though, fuck yeah, great version here! Driven as can be, Billy, Jerry, Phil, Keith dominate. Hell, in the lighter moments you can even hear Pigpen. A+ version.
Performance Summary
Great show from the get go. The Meat Sequence is one of the best out there, and the closing GDTRFB is priceless. A+ show, much better than the next night, in my opinion.
Sound Quality
A+ for the official release.
Subject: A 3rd (Audience) Source
http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-05-25.psbd.hamilton.147.sbeok.shnf
Subject: It was here before
We know it's gone
Subject: Good ole aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh.
Subject: Dark Star is quite spacey
Subject: 5-25-72
Subject: Agreed
Peace, Bob
Subject: "Acid madness of epic proportions in full swing."
Although the show gets off to a bit of a slow start, by the middle of the first set things start to heat up. The 17 minute, last Pigpen performance of Good Lovin' is phenomenal. It features a nice smokey jam and some extraordinary lead guitar by Weir. Is that really Garcia playing organ during the intro? Playin' in the Band is typically psychedelic. It's one of the better performances of the song on the tour, the band starting to stretch it out a bit.
The highlight of the show of course, is the incredible second set jam sequence and another amazing performance of Dark Star. A great Uncle John's Band kicks off the suite, possibly the best of the tour. But it's during the jam prior to Wharf Rat where the music really takes off. It's an amazing rendition of the song, highly emotive, and perhaps the best performance of Wharf Rat on the tour.
Once again we are treated to another monumental performance of Dark Star. This exploratory performance covers a great deal of ground during the almost 17 minutes prior to the first verse, much of it is quite jazzy. The snappy opening theme jam in particular is dynamite, and an intense spacey jam punctuated by some wild bass chords preceeds the first verse. After the verse, at about 18:30, a rather amazing bass driven jam developes with some very cool interplay between Billy, Keith and Phil. Eventually Weir leads the band into a beautiful Feelin' Groovy Jam that lasts several delightful minutes before things get rather wild, Phil producing some rather interesting sounds prior to things melting down into a dizzying space segment.
Unfortunately, the conclusion of the performance is missing after Sugar Magnolia. You might think that after two months on the road, the band might show more evidence of fatigue or a lapse in creativity, however this is a tremendous show. Will we ever hear the complete performance? (97 pts*)
*If the new soundboard recording contained the complete show, this performance might garner a perfect score!
Subject: wow
very impressive, 5/26/72 is most known from the london run, also 5/23 worth a spin, but sure glad to see this material leak out. specifically the uncle johns to rat into ds... the space is fantastic. Ill go out on a limb and suggest that the alligator was jerry's finest guitar and 1972 was his finest form of playing, keith adds the final touches to a band on fire. Shame about the comes a time ending.
Subject: are you kidding me.............
Subject: Great. Great. Great.
hell with a review -- just listen.
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